- Title
- Media in the service of citizens
- Creator
- Banda, Fackson
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- Conference paper
- Identifier
- vital:6321
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008547
- Description
- This lecture looks at the role of the media in promoting an enhanced citizenship, locating the debate within the discourse of development and freedom. It identifies threats to what can be characterised as a 'media-citizens compact', such as media over-commercialisation. It concludes that public-service media are cardinal to the enjoyment of citizenship rights and freedoms.
- Format
- 17 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Unpublished
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Banda, Fackson (2006) Media in the Service of Citizens. In: Inaugural Press Freedom Day Public Lecture Series, 3 May 2006, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. (Unpublished)
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